19-star “exclusionary flag” from 1861.

19-star “exclusionary flag” from 1861.
19-star “exclusionary flag” from 1861.
A banner from the USS Constitution—”Old Ironsides”—is one of the oldest survivng flags from the ship, dating from 1845 to 1850.
A 35-star national color for a volunteer army regiment in Philadelphia, circa 1863.
This 34-star flag flew at the Albany, N.Y., train station on April 26, 1865, the day President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train stopped on its way to Springfield, Ill.
The American Anti-Slavery Almanac in 1844 shows signs of strife well before the Civil War, with the flag’s stars divided by color into North and South, and a liberty cap out of the slave’s reach. The verse is by William Lloyd Garrison, the almanac’s editor.
The flag of the United States that was on President John F. Kennedy’s limousine the day he was assassinated in Dallas, November 22, 1963.
Fhe presidential flag that was on President John F. Kennedy’s limousine the day he was assassinated in Dallas, November 22, 1963.
President John F. Kennedy on the day he was assassinated in Dallas, November 22, 1963.
General George A. Custer’s crossed-swords military flag used to mark his location in the battlefield.
General George A. Custer’s personal guidon, the crossed-swords military flag used to mark his location in the battlefield, and his 3rd Division Cavalry Corps flag are both visible in an 1864 photograph of his headquarters in Winchester, Va.
General George A. Custer’s personal guidon.
A regimental color from the 18th U.S. Regular Infantry, circa 1863 to 1865.
A 26-star “grand luminary—shooting star” flag, circa 1837 to 1845
A rare, 13-star flag from 1814 or earlier has a machine-stitched panel added later, bearing the names of two men who would become the 1880 Democratic nominees for president and vice president, Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English.